These are all huge issues. We are drowning ourselves in pesticides, while the natural predators of many of the insects we are trying to kill are dying off. My daughter did a kindergarten presentation about the bats dying. I will have to share this story with her. She will like it.

But Nick is right.

The bees are huge. The rapid loss of the bee populations is going to have a huge impact on the entire planet.

Frogs are also bug eaters. Kill them. We need more pesticides.

The coral reefs. I am shocked to visit sites i used to dive, and see such destruction. Local residents usually blame the coral bleaching on some recent hurricane. But there have been many many hurricanes in the thousands of years that some of those reefs survived. It is something more.

And then those of us who live on island wonder about rising sea levels....

Nick, Someone had to mention batman with the batcave - I'm glad it was you. Alfred would be proud.

As for the bees - folks are almost 100% sure now it is the neonicintinoid insecticides. They haven't been getting much press lately, maybe farmers are using more acute insecticides with more forethought for spraying when bees aren't as active. I believe we will see the honey bee industry revive - then keepers can go back to worrying about the bee mites.

^ I dont know, some kids in my history class today were pretty sure the Apocalypse was just around the corner.

Kill off the Bee...and it is likely within 60 years.

That's one of the reasons I am child free. If the world was at 250 million population, we likely wouldn't be in the pile of shit we are now. But no, we our dedicated to fulfilling our role of Easter Islanders writ large.

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An Omnipowerful God needed to sacrifice himself to himself (but only for a long weekend) in order to avert his own wrath against his own creations who he made in a manner knowing that they weren't going to live up to his standards.